5 Replies Latest reply: Oct 27, 2011 5:30 AM by cristian.alexe RSS

    NTSC project timeline length is shorter on actual burned DVD

    Danielpremiere Community Member

      Hi everyone

       

      I am working on authoring a series of DVDs of music concerts using Encore CS3. These have all been edited in Premiere (CS3). The footage was all acquired and edited in PAL, as I normally do, as we are UK-based. This project was then authored in Encore in PAL format - everything fine.

       

      However, we have also made versions of these particular concerts in NTSC as there is worldwide market.  have converted the video to NTSC using GV Procoder 3, and inserted my rendered audio, slightly adjusted for sync - all fine, into a new NTSC Premiere project. This is re-rendered to M2V & AC3 files for the DVD. Again all fine. This is a long concert - the length of my timeline is 3;16;36;09. However when I check the finished DVD back in a DVD player or Windows Media player, the length has reduced to 3hr16min24sec. So approx 12 seconds shorter over the length of 3 1/4 hours. There appears to be no audio sync problem, or anything missed out, and the chapters are where they should be just everything is just that slight bit compressed. (i.e. halfway through is 6 seconds different between timeline and DVD)

       

      I normally only make PAL DVDs, and have never encountered this before, so apologies if it's obvious to NTSC folk but would like reassurance that it's not something which I'm doing wrong!

       

      Interestingly I have checked two other discs in the same series, which have been released, which have the same effect. 2hours 18min 47sec in Encore reduces to 2hours 18 mins 39 sec on DVD

       

      Any reason for this? My PAL versions is exactly 3.16.40.00 on both!!

       

      Many thanks

       

      Daniel